Megan Abbott is the Edgar-winning author of seven novels, including Dare Me, The End of Everything, and The Fever. Her stories have appeared in anthologies including Queens Noir and The Best American Mystery Stories. She is also the author of The Street Was Mine, a study of hardboiled fiction and film noir. Her next novel, You Will Know Me, comes out in July 2016.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
Ugliness and Glamour
Megan Abbott interviews Alison Gaylin...
Man and Wunderkammern: "The Strange and Brilliant Life of Robert Ripley"
WHEN I WAS SEVEN OR EIGHT, my family vacationed at Ocean City, Maryland. Every night, walking the boardwalk with my dad, ...
Knowing It Has to End
Noir's rap is bleak, nihilistic, hardbitten. But at heart it's a deeply emotional genre and a deeply nostalgic one....
Twilight of the Boosters
On Tom Perrotta’s post-millennial suburban humanism....
Soft-Voiced Big Men: Robert Crais’s “The Sentry”
At heart, this is conventional stuff, but Crais uses the conventions to maximum effect....
